Paraphrase the eighth stanza of “the raven” in your own words. how did paraphrasing it you better understand the events that the narrator is describing?
then the ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, by the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," i said, "art sure no craven, ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore— tell me what thy lordly name is on the night's plutonian shore! " quoth the raven, "nevermore."